Show A 11 1 E N I 1 A OM 11 IN i fa fislid a Hopeless Battle for homes and hodor BUT THEY ARE AEE vanquished analeah and leap from Preci procip pic ic rather bather than rail into the hands of the bar bahous turks A diary of the Arnic armenian nian massacres published by the Vos sische clie at berlin describes woman and ami children taking the places pl aces of massacred husbands and brothers in gergos heroic six days defense of against the turkish siege the position be becoming conling untenable gargo decided to leave the defense to the women himself leading 0 his troops on a forage 0 for idl fo ed and ammunition on au aug 2 23 0 the flomen defended the position for twenty four but finally yielded to numbers number th they ey issued from the town with their children and carrying babies on their backs gergos wire wife finding in escarre impossible stepped on a roe rock k an and I 1 cried sisters you you must choose between falling into the hands of oatlie the turks and forgetting your husbands homes religion and honor or follo following will iny my exair example aple with wit h these words holding her baby in her arms she dashed herself from the rock into the abyss yawning c at its base the other women and a nd children eilent silently ly followed her example until the alin ravine was filled with cor corpses pcs the last women who threw themselves down fell upon the bodies of their 1 uc iati emy horror about fifty women and one hundred children were taken ers and endured torture rather than betray gargo and his brave followers gar garos gergos L os heroic wife was called calle khe and it is declared that the name de deserves perves to be known throughout europe tiflis an armenian benian journal reports that the governor of bialis recently sent a circular earcular letter to the armenian io tables commanding them to sign in an address to the sultan declaring that the reported turkish excesses excess ui in the gassoun district were unfounded toun ded the not eables declined to sign such an address whereupon poll 1 of them were were thrown into prison vienna A constantinople dispatch reports that sir philip currie the british ambassador is dissatisfied with the portes statement that the armenian outrages were anly ordinary acts of brigandage aud ami that thai lie he has made e sensations to the porte further disturbances are said to have occurred in the district in the mountains of asia minor and at oston oslon the society of the friends of armenia began today to circulate a petition lo 10 the Prest president lent and to the czar of asking them to interfere tu to prevent further slaughter of armenians Armen ians by turks and secure just reparation for the blood already shed hartford con malcon A aghamalian ba of this city received a letter from armenia yesterday an all bouncing noun cing that five men all ameci cin citizens of the united states stales and residents of new england t started for harpet about abou t two mouths months ago to visit relatives they were stopped ato aped on the way by the turkish police almost within sight eight a of their old hones homes and ordered to immediately leave the country upon refusing to do this all five were thrown into prison and subsequently were carried away where no one knows the supposition is that thal they were tortured perhaps killed the rev J L barton of the american missionary board who spent years yeara in asia minor says bays lie he witnessed many turkish ou autric c 4 |